World Spider Catalog

Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: for comments on relationships, see Michalik & Hormiga, 2010: 7; re-synonymization of Pimoidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix) not sufficiently justified and is not accepted here; Sinopimoidae Li & Wunderlich, 2008 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0112] synonymyized with Linyphiidae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 245; resurrection of Sinopimoidae by Wunderlich, 2020b: 20 is not accepted here, because Dimitrov et al., 2017 was not taken into account; re-elevation of Sinopimoidae to family level by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 343 not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards); the current status of Sinopimoidae is also maintained for reasons of stability and we wait for a probable confirmation or rejection of this resurrection; other subfamilies are Erigoninae Emerton, 1882: 7 and Mynogleninae Lehtinen, 1967: 250.

In synonymy:

Hubertinus Wunderlich, 1980 = Alioranus Simon, 1926 (Tanasevitch, 1989a: 125)

Gen. Alioranus Simon, 1926 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00825

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hubertinus Wunderlich, 1980g: 122 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05237] (type H. planiceps Wunderlich, 1980 = Alioranus pastoralis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)) by Tanasevitch, 1989a: 125; that synonymy was disputed by Wunderlich, 1995s: 644, but he provided no evidence that the type species of the two names have different sister groups (see also Bosmans, 2007: 118, another argument from mere difference); the spelling Aliocranus by Roewer is erroneous.

In synonymy:

Alioranus avanturus Andreeva & Tystshenko, 1970 = Alioranus chiardolae Caporiacco, 1935 (Tanasevitch, 2013b: 172)

Alioranus limicola Denis, 1949 = Alioranus pauper Simon, 1882 (Denis, 1950a: 250)

Alioranus planiceps (Wunderlich, 1980) = Alioranus pastoralis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (Bosmans, 1994a: 233)

Alioranus chiardolae (Caporiacco, 1935) | | Turkmenistan to China, Karakorum urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:010682

Gongylidiellum chiardolae Caporiacco, 1935b: 169, pl. 3, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Alioranus avanturus Andreeva & Tystshenko, 1970: 38, f. 1 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009373]

Alioranus avanturus Andreeva, 1976: 61, f. 62-68 (mf)

Alioranus avanturus Tanasevitch, 1989a: 124, f. 110-114 (mf)

Alioranus avanturus Gao, Zhu & Sha, 1994: 80, f. 1-5 (mf)

Alioranus avanturus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 156, f. 85C-F (mf)

Alioranus chiardolae Tanasevitch, 2013b: 172 (T from Gongylidiellum, S of Alioranus avanturus)

Alioranus diclivitalis Tanasevitch, 1990 | | Caucasus (Russia, Azerbaijan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009374

Alioranus diclivitalis Tanasevitch, 1990: 42, f. 15.1-5 (Dmf) Original description

Alioranus distinctus Caporiacco, 1935 | | Karakorum urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009375

Alioranus distinctus Caporiacco, 1935b: 177, pl. 2, f. 8 (Dm) Original description

Alioranus minutissimus Caporiacco, 1935 | | Karakorum urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009376

Alioranus minutissimus Caporiacco, 1935b: 177 (Dm) Original description

Alioranus pastoralis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) | | Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Tajikistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009377

Erigone pastoralis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 292 (Dm) Original description

Troxochrus pastoralis Simon, 1884a: 652

Hubertinus planiceps Wunderlich, 1980g: 124, f. 8-16 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061285]

Alioranus planiceps Tanasevitch, 1989a: 125, f. 115-116 (mf, T from Hubertinus)

Alioranus pastoralis Bosmans, 1994a: 233 (mf, T from Troxochrus, S of Alioranus planiceps)

Alioranus pastoralis Frick, Nentwig & Kropf, 2010: 309, Suppl. pl. 2A-O (mf)

Alioranus pastoralis Lecigne, 2023: 14, f. 8A-C (f)

Alioranus pauper (Simon, 1882) | | Mediterranean urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009378

Erigone paupera Simon, 1882d: 236 (Dm) Original description

Dactylopisthes pauper Simon, 1884a: 593, f. 410-411 (m; f see Microctenonyx subitaneus)

Alioranus pauper Simon, 1926: 371, 493 (f f. 662 see Microctenonyx subitaneus)

Alioranus limicola Denis, 1949a: 153, f. 2-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061284]

Alioranus pauper Denis, 1950a: 250 (S of Alioranus limicola)

Alioranus pauper Millidge, 1977: 34, f. 128 (m)

Alioranus pauper Bosmans, 2007: 118, f. 1-5 (mf)

Alioranus pauper Barrientos et al., 2016: 96, f. 19-23 (mf)

Erigone paupera Frétey, 2023: 124 (year of description corrected)

Alioranus pauper Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024: 26, f. 16a-e (mf)